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Arthur Young
Standard Name: Young, Arthur
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Dedications | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
first used her pseudonym, Gabrielli, for The Mysterious Wife. A Novel, which she dedicated on this date to her maternal aunt Martha Young
(wife of Arthur Young
, the agricultural writer). Martha... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Hervey | It is variously and descriptively set in Wales (where it opens near the mountains of Snowdon and Penmaenmawr), Ireland, and South Carolina, where Ned's adventures begin with landing at Charlestown (or Charleston)... |
| Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | |
| Textual Production | Matilda Betham-Edwards | In 1889 MBE
branched into a new field, editing the works of other people, in providing an introduction, a biographical sketch, and notes for Travels in France by the famous agricultural writer Arthur Young
(who... |
Timeline
1768: Arthur Young published the first of his surveys...
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1768
Arthur Young
published the first of his surveys of the state of the British countryside: A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
387
1774: Arthur Young published his Political Arithmetic,...
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1774
Arthur Young
published his Political Arithmetic, in support of mercantilist economics and maximizing the wealth of the state.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
388-9
From : Arthur Young spent the time in Ireland (as...
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From Summer 1776
Arthur Young
spent the time in Ireland (as agent to Lord Kingsborough
) on which he based his Tour in Ireland, published in 1780.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
389
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197. 184n3
From 1789: John Howlett, a prominent former supporter...
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From 1789
John Howlett
, a prominent former supporter of the enclosure of common land, changed his tune and argued against the practice in Arthur Young
's Annals of Agriculture.
Neeson, J. M. Commoners: Common Right, Enclosure and Social Change in England, 1700-1820. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
25-7, 49-50
1795: In this year of near-famine in England, Arthur...
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1795
In this year of near-famine in England, Arthur Young
published in his Annals of Agriculture a Sermon on the Scarcity of Corn.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
391
June-November 1800: Arthur Young made a tour through East Anglia...
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June-November 1800
Arthur Young
made a tour through East Anglia and several Southern counties.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
392
By September 1800: The high price of wheat produced hardship...
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By September 1800
The high price of wheat produced hardship and scarcity in Britain and Ireland.
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
158
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
2nd ser. 30 (1800): 116-7, 458
A hundredweight (a measure of 112 pounds weight or one cwt) must be meant here...
1808: Arthur Young's General Report on Enclosures,...
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1808
Arthur Young
's General Report on Enclosures, commissioned by the Board of Agriculture
, performed the analysis that its title suggests. An appendix traced, county by county, the effects of enclosure on the rural poor.
Easton, Celia A. “Jane Austen and the Enclosure Movement: the Sense and Sensibility of Land Reform”. Persuasions, Vol.
24
, 2002, pp. 71-89. 87
Texts
Young, Arthur. The Autobiography of Arthur Young. Editor Betham-Edwards, Matilda, Smith, Elder, 1898.